Fabio Immerthal and Bastian Rupsch have qualified for the VBL Club Championships Finals with VFL Wolfsburg. This puts the two talents from the Esports Academy NRW among the top 8 teams in Germany. On March 25 and 26, they will then battle against RB Leipzig and reigning world champion Umut “RBLZ_Umut” Gültekin, among others, for the VBL Club Championship in Cologne.
They will certainly not be underdogs in Cologne. Immerthal has won the most singles matches throughout the season, making him the best U18 player in the entire league. As a duo, Fabio and Bastian also won the most doubles matches. Marcel “Minsumacher31” Gramann will once again be coaching them on site.
Immerthal and Rupsch finished the main round in 4th place in the North-West Division. First and second place qualify directly for the VBL Club Championship Finals, while places 3-6 have to take a detour via the playoffs. Before the final matchday, they battled against St. Pauli, Werder Bremen, Schalke 04 and 1.FC Köln for the best possible starting position for the playoffs. The pair only managed to leap to fourth place at literally the last second, with a late Gladbach goal in the derby against 1.FC Köln flushing the duo further up the table.
In 4th place, they faced SV Sandhausen yesterday (07.03.2023), who finished 5th in the South-East Division. In an exciting 2vs2 duel, an early goal from the Wolfsburg duo decided the match. With a 1:0 lead behind him, “WOB_Fabio” went into the possibly decisive 2nd duel against David Queck from Sandhausen. Right from the start, he showed that there was no way around the Wolfsburg player today and defeated his opponent 2:1. The second victory was synonymous with entry into the VBL Club Championship Finals, as the playoffs are played in best-of-three mode.
Fabio Immerthal and Bastian Rupsch have been supported by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the esports player foundation as part of the Esports Academy NRW since October 2022. They are coached in both solo and duo mode by our coach Marcel “Minusmacher31” Gramann.